Beggars Lane, Tring - Safety Improvements Begin

December 5, 2016 11:04 PM
Beggars Lane Off-Road Parking WIP

Off-Road Parking Under Construction

Beggars Lane near Tring Station is having to be closed for a series of works to enhance safety for motorists, cyclists and people using the Ridgeway Path or fishing or walking along the canal.

Apologies for the inconvenience this is causing while the lane is closed. There will be quite a lot of work to be done, but this will be done in stages.

The road has been badly damaged over several areas by vehicles pulling off over the edge of the tarmac width to pass each other. This causes the tyres and the weight of the vehicles to nibble away at the edge of the carriageway and then the wheels wear away the verge to produce long holes into which wheels of following vehicles can sink and this can then result in tyres being shredded.

To a lesser extent the same process occurs more slowly when parking takes place day after day in narrower stretches of the lane..

So the County Council is carrying out the following work in stages:

  • Carriageway repairs
  • Construction of 6 additional off-road spaces (or more if Smart Cars are being parked)
  • Tree and hedge trimming and a wider entrance created onto Station Road
  • New kerb stones to protect the edge of the road
  • Improvement to drainage and a length of ditch cleared out

The propose to make Beggars Lane a Clearway has been abandonned and parking restrictions will be enforced using Double Yellow Lines instead.

There are three possible future projects which are being considered for the area.

  • Improvements to Northfield Road
  • Extra buses between Tring and the Stations in the evenings
  • Speed restrictions down Beggars Lane - at present it is an unrestricted road (i.e. max speed of 60 mph)